John McTiernan Quotes

In a thriller, the camera`s an active narrator, or can be.

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

You take it one step at a time and the basic rule is to work on movies you would like to go see because it takes too long and it`s too hard to work on a project for somebody else just because it`s a job. When it`s four in the morning and you`ve been working 18 hours a day for 10 months straight you had better care about the film, otherwise you couldn`t put out the way you have to. To do it well you don`t have any other life, so it better be something you enjoy.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

The entertainment is in the presentation.

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That`s hung around for me.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

They were knowingly false, your honor.